Barra binte Samawal

Barra binte Samawal was the wife of Huyayy ibn Akhtab of the Banu Nadir tribe of Arabia.

Biography
Barra binte Samawal was the daughter of the warrior-poet Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya, and she was Jewish. She married the chief Huyayy ibn Akhtab of the Banu Nadir tribe, and she lived in Medina until the tribe's expulsion to Khaybar in 625. In 627, her husband and son were beheaded for their involvement in the Battle of the Trench, and her daughter Safiyya bint Huyayy was taken as one of Muhammad's wives.